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Christine Chen examines stony deposits called tufas on an ancient lakeshore in the central Andes Mountains, northern Chile. Chen, a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, visited there in…

For decades, one of the driving forces behind much of WHOI’s success in exploring the ocean has been the close association between its scientists and engineers. Here, research engineer Mike…

Alexandrium fundyense is the algae notorious for producing a toxin that accumulates in shellfish and can cause paralytic shellfish poisoning in humans. This organism swims in the water and divides…

Jerry Dean (foreground) and colleague carry a Vector Averaging Current Meter that had just been recovered from the Sargasso Sea, where it was attached to a mooring line as part…

The village of Woods Hole, one of eight villages in the Town of Falmouth, Massachusetts, is shown here circa 1948. Trains, visible at bottom of the image, where the Steamship Authority…

Children match colors on a chart to the color of water containing a dye to indicating the pH, or acid/alkaline levels, of the water to learn about the widespread problem…

A large crane off-loads the submersible Alvin from research vessel Atlantis, as WHOI Dockmaster Doug Handy holds a line and Atlantis bosun Pat Hennessy descends the gangway. Alvin weighs about…

Kelsey Gosselin, a research assistant in the lab of WHOI biogeochemist Amanda Spivak, saws into a core collected from the Kennebec River watershed in Maine. Spivak is working with biologist…

Scientists exploring off the south coast of Fernandina Island in the Gálapagos archipelago recently saw and imaged this field of sea stars at about 280 meters (919 feet) deep. WHOI…

The barrel of the WHOI Long Core spans the port side of the research vessel Knorr. The one-of-a-kind system can extract columns of seafloor sediments up to 150 feet long.…

During a dive in a manned submersible, researchers studying biodiversity at the Hannibal Bank Seamount came across an unexpected sight—thousands of red crabs in low-oxygen waters swarming like insects just…

For more than half a century, scientists have tried to drill through the Earth’s rocky crust to reach its mantle. WHOI geophysicist Henry Dick, who has dedicated much of his…

The research vessel Neil Armstrong is by no means the first connection between the exploration of space and the ocean. The nation’s first research vessel, WHOI’s R/V Atlantis, gave its name…

It’s not a miniature serpent—scientists found this glassy planktonic worm in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica. A relative of earthworms, it uses its red-tipped swimming paddles to swim through the…

In May 1997, the recently launched research vessel R/V Atlantis made its way into New York City during its first year of service. Atlantis continues to be operated by WHOI…